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' J. M. CONNER- TYPE GASTING MOLD.

No. 293,633. Patented Feb. 19', 1884.

I INVENTOR UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES M. CONNER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TYPE-CASTING MOLD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 293,633, dated February19, 1884. Application filed December 26, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:-

Be it known that 1, JAMES M. CONNER, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented, made, and applied to use Improvements in theConstruction of Molds for Casting Metal Type; and I do hereby declarethat the.

side of the mold. Fig. 4 is a view of the 1 notched strip employed byme.

In the drawings like parts of the invention are designated by the samelettersof reference.

The nature of the present invention consists in combining with atype-mold, as more fully hereinafter set forth, a movable notched strip,the invention being specially applicable to the casting of descendingtypes, and, by affording a proper support for the descend ing lines, toreduce the weight of each type cast at least one-fifth, as the body, soto speak, can be made of less weight than if the type were cast in amold constructed in the usual manner.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willdescribe its con- 'struction.

A and B show, respectively, the two sections of which the type-mold iscomposed, and 0' shows the opening in the mold for the entranceof themolten metal from which the type is to be' formed. One section of themold supports or is provided upon its interior, near its upper or topside, with a stationary strip or projection, while the opposite sectionis provided with a movable strip or proj ection, D, parallel,

when the sections of the mold are united,with the stationary strip orprojection upon the opposite section of the mold. This movable strip orprojection is notched, as at d, and is retained in position by aset-screw, c, or in any convenient manner.

The'operation maybe thus described: When letters or types known asdescending letters are to be cast, the notched portion of the movablestrip D is brought into proper position within its section of the mold,and in line with the stationary strip or projection upon the oppositesection of the mold, and held in this position, as already described.The moltenv metal enters the mold through the opening 0, passes throughthe same to the opposite side of the mold, and the letter is formed, thedescending portion of the same resting upon or being received within thenotched portion of the strip D,while the body .of the type will beexactly they width of the space in the mold of the unnotched portion ofthe strip D and the corresponding strip or proj ection upon the oppositesection of the mold.

My construction renders the mold available for casting other than whatare known as. descending letters, for when other letters or types are tobe cast the unnotched or plain portion of the movable strip isbroughtopposite the stationary strip, and the body of the type then cast willbe equal to the space between the two strips of the mold, or form, as itwere, a con- -tinuation of the face portion of the type or letter.

Having now set forth my invention, what I claim as new is A mold forforming type which may be descending or not, provided with theadjustable strip D, having at one edge the notch d,whereby the mold isadapted for both kinds of type, as set forth.

. JAMES M. CON-NEH. In presence of WILLIAM V. H. HIoKs, A. SIDNEY DOANE.

